- Title:
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Ladies’ Rest and Writing Room
- Written by:
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Kim Kelly
- Read by:
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Caroline Lee
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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3
- Duration:
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3 hours 39 minutes
- Published:
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March 28 2024
- Available Date:
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March 28 2024
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781038668394
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian Fiction; Historical; Historical Fiction; Romance
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Bestselling author
Award winning author
Australian author
Winner Finlay Lloyd 20/40 Publishing Prize 2023
Kim Kelly sweeps listeners into the lives and passions of her two central characters and into the bustling city streets of Sydney in the 1920s, in this powerfully moving audiobook that sparkles with vitality.
Christmastime, 1922. Sydney is at last waking from the nightmare of the Great War, and rekindled hope brings a burst of new energy to the city.
Dotty Bluebrook does not share the shift in mood. Drifting through her rich-girl routine of shopping and social engagements, she is secretly mourning the loss of a forbidden lover who went off to fight and never returned. He’s been missing in action for four long years – and she’s losing her mind.
Clarinda Littlemore is grieving losses of a more concrete kind. Her beloved father and brothers are unquestionably dead – leaving her and her mother in poverty. Taking a job in the Ladies’ Rest and Writing Room of an elegant department store, Clarinda is craving a life beyond filling inkpots and replenishing stationery supplies.
One hot summer morning, when Dotty sweeps into the rose-pink haven of the writing room to pen a letter to her non-existent man, Clarinda watches her, and a recognition flares with resentment at her privilege. But soon she senses that Dotty’s in some desperate trouble of her own and, with recognition ever deepening, Clarinda takes a chance to rescue them both.
*Winner of the 20/40 Finlay Lloyd Prize*
'Kim Kelly’s spry and endearing period novella … offers an elegant tonic for grief.'
The Sydney Morning Herald
'A wonder of a tale – masterfully compressed but endlessly capacious … Kelly’s elegant storytelling is full of wit and wisdom.' (on The Rat Catcher)
Wendy James, author of A Little Bird
'Kelly is a masterful creator of character and voice.' (on Walking)
Julian Leatherdale, author of Palace of Tears